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Volume 25, Number 6—June 2019
Research

Performance of 2 Commercial Serologic Tests for Diagnosing Zika Virus Infection

Séverine Matheus, Cheikh Talla, Bhety Labeau, Franck de Laval, Sébastien Briolant, Lena Berthelot, Muriel Vray, and Dominique RoussetComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana (S. Matheus, B. Labeau, L. Berthelot, D. Rousset); Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal (C. Talla, M. Vray); French Armed Forces Health Service in French Guiana, Cayenne (F. de Laval); French Military Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health, Marseille, France (F. de Laval); Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées, Marseille (S. Briolant); Aix Marseille Université, Marseille (S. Briolant)

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Table 1

Characteristics of panels evaluated in study of Zika virus diagnostic tests

Panel Sample characterization No. samples Mean time to collection after onset of fever, d (+ SD)
Panel performance evaluation 3–20 days after onset
Zika virus subgroup Positive Zika virus 90 10 + 6
Non–Zika virus subgroup Negative Zika virus with confirmed dengue virus infection 35 10 + 3
Negative Zika virus with confirmed chikungunya virus infection 29 13 + 3
Negative Zika virus, dengue virus, chikungunya virus 45 11 + 5
Total panel performance
199
 10 + 5
Panel IgM–IgG kinetics 0–300 days after onset
Positive Zika virus 300* Minimum 0, maximum 300, median 20, interquartile range 4–81

*300 samples from 124 patients, including the 90 positive Zika virus samples in the first panel.

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